Zimmerman defense attorney Mark O'Mara: Look, Don, I know how much you love knock-knock jokes. But are you sure the opening statement of a murder trial is an appropriate setting for one?

Zimmerman defense attorney Don West: If there is one place where a knock-knock joke is most appropriate, it's a murder trial.

O'Mara: Listen, Don, let's

West: Knock-knock.

O'Mara: No, come on, Don, not now. West: Knock-knock.

O'Mara: [Sighs.] Who's there?

West: Mark.

O'Mara: Mark who?

West: Mark who should just shut his stupid face because he doesn't know the first thing about being a trial lawyer, or knock-knock jokes, and should just go order the Chinese food like he said he was going to do half an hour ago and should not forget to ask for brown rice instead of white rice, like he did last time.

O'Mara: Okay, Don. That's not even a joke  that's just a string of insults. West: Knock-knock.

Now the pro Trayvon people are always saying that the screaming on the recordings were Trayvon screaming for his life. I don’t think any of them deny he hit Zimmerman (although they call it a scuffle between the two).

My question, is do they believe that he was screaming for his life as he saw the gun before or after or during he was “fighting” with Zimmerman.

I honestly cannot see any even remote scenario where someone sees a gun, so they start screaming for their life like crazy, but then starts punching the one that makes them scream for their life.

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posted on 06/24/2013 1:15:53 PM PDT
by MNDude
(Sorry for typos. Probably written on a smartphone, and I have big clumsy fingers.)

Think - if you were alone and somebody pulled a gun on you (the scenario that the prosecution is arguing happened), would you scream "Help"?

You would either go for the gun, run away, or plead: "Don't shoot, man - we can work this out, etc."

Realistically, you are not going to assume that a random stranger in shouting distance is going to come running in time to willingly disarm a gunman.

You shout help if you are being beaten up - since a random stranger within shouting distance is more likely to (a) stop a fistfight rather than a gunfight and (b) a random stranger cannot outrun a bullet but usually can get there before you are beaten to death.

Had Martin spoken on tape I would have expected to hear: "No! Don't!" or "Don't shoot!"

This guy is a prominent, experienced criminal defense lawyer. I can't believe he did this. It's like the rule against analogies - even if you think you have a great one, don't give in to the temptation.

One man is dead and another is on trial for his life - not a time for telling a joke.

That was 1974; I’m still carrying that .32cal. State law is that if a hospital takes out a bullet, the cops get it as ‘evidence’; I want to wear it around my neck on a chain if they remove it. So it stays put. I was lucky. It missed all organs/bones etc, and didn’t even bleed. Just a large red lump on my side w/ a black dot in the center. Can’t hardly even see the scar, now.

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